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Tossa de Mar Municipal Museum

“Pique Nique” (Picnic)

Olga Sacharoff (Tiflis, 1889 – Barcelona, 1967), was one of the foremost foreign artists who came to Tossa. She was accompanied by her husband, the English photographer Otto Lloyd, the painters Albert Gleizes, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Gabrielle Buffet, and Marie Laurencin... almost all of whom studied in Paris, and fled the First World War to establish themselves in Barcelona. In Tossa, Olga Sacharoff painted a series of works entitled “Pique Nique”.